Honestly my Hexbear people won't learn much from this, but this is a good resource to beat libs over the head with.
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Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections.
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At least 65 million individuals worldwide are estimated to have long COVID,
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...[occurs in] 10–12% of vaccinated cases
Yes that's right, 10% of vaccinated cases
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With significant proportions of individuals with long COVID unable to return to work, the scale of newly disabled individuals is contributing to labour shortages.
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Six months after breakthrough infection, increased risks were observed for cardiovascular conditions, coagulation and haematological conditions, death, fatigue, neurological conditions and pulmonary conditions
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A higher prevalence of long Covid has been reported in certain ethnicities, including people with Hispanic or Latino heritage. Socio-economic risk factors include lower income and an inability to adequately rest in the early weeks after developing COVID-19
Rich people don't have to give a fuck about COVID
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Long COVID impacts children of all ages [with symptoms] 2 to 36 times more likely [with children who had COVID]
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Studies looking at immune dysregulation in individuals with long COVID who had mild acute COVID-19 have found T cell alterations, including exhausted T cells [and other immune reductions]
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A long-lasting reduction in vascular density, specifically affecting small capillaries, was found in patients with long COVID compared with controls, 18 months after infection.
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Cardiac MRI studies revealed cardiac impairment in 78% of 100 individuals who had a prior COVID-19 episode
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70% of [long COVID] patients had damage to at least one organ and 29% had multi-organ damage... The organ damage experienced by patients with long COVID appears durable
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... fatigue was found in 32% and cognitive impairment was found in 22% of patients with COVID-19 at 12 weeks after infection. Cognitive impairments in long COVID are debilitating, at the same magnitude as intoxication at the :ukkk: drink driving limit or 10 years of cognitive ageing
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Viral persistence in the penile tissue has been documented, as has an increased risk of erectile dysfunction, likely resulting from endothelial dysfunction. In one study, impairments to sperm count, semen volume, motility, sperm morphology and sperm concentration were reported in individuals
:alex-aware:
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Several imaging studies that included non-hospitalized individuals with long COVID demonstrated pulmonary abnormalities including in air trapping and lung perfusion
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Few people with long COVID demonstrate full recovery, with one study finding that 85% of patients who had symptoms 2 months after the initial infection reported symptoms 1 year after symptom onset
There's lots of good links to studies if you need to debate libs
for me there were two main phases of COVID: the "acute" phase and the "long" phase
The acute phase can last 1-2 months, with varying symptoms. for me the biggest was deathly fatigue. Vitamin C helped this the most, I took 500 mg
The "long" phase was milder but still horrible with a still-very-reduced appetite. Antibiotics were what eliminated this for me. Fasting might have done it too, since logically both would kill gut bacteria.
After the "main" "long" phase, I had a 2 year phase which was "90% recovered" but I still felt off and somewhat tired. This went away with time and isolating myself in my house/backyard. I did not even go to grocery stores, and the one time I did, I got reinfected.
After this 2 year phase though, I completely recovered, and a number of "healthy" things happened to my body. Scars that I had from BEFORE covid started going away, my hair density increased, energy went through the roof, etc. This lasted for 2 months before I got reinfected again--if I hadn't it's possible it would have lasted forever.
In my case it was possible to not only COMPLETELY recover from long-COVID, but also to FEEL BETTER than I did before COVID. However, it required living with my parents in a house where my working parent isolated in the bottom half of the house. This is probably not achievable for most people.
As a result of this, I know that the only true solution for long-COVID is to find other like-minded people who agree with me, and buy land together, and earn a living by selling produce/livestock etc. It legitimately requires a parallel and mostly self-sufficient Amish-type society. Otherwise you will just breathe in COVID your entire life and never get better, and probably also die a much earlier death.
how did these things happen?
This is the only solution I really come up with as well; Zero-Covid Communities are gonna have to be a thing in the future, but it's gonna be a wealthy people-Elysium sorta thing.